http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010469079
http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=F011643449
The first full and authorized biography of the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature-the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years.
Over the course of the nearly two decades Gerald Martin gave to the research and writing of this masterly biography, he not only spent many hours in conversation with Gabriel Garc?a Marquez himself but also interviewed more than three hundred others, including Garc?a Marquez’s wife and sons, mother and siblings, literary agent and translators; Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Alvaro Mutis, among other writers; Fidel Castro and Felipe Gonzalez, among other political figures; his closest friends as well as those who consider themselves his detractors. The result is a revelation of both the writer and the man.
Garca Marquez’s story is a remarkable one. Born in 1927, raised by grandparents and a clutch of aunts in a small backwater town in Colombia, the shy, intelligent boy matured into a reserved young man, first working as a provincial journalist and later as a foreign correspondent, whose years of obscurity came to an end when, at the age of forty, he published the novel entitled Cien anos de soledad-One Hundred Years of Solitude. Within months, the book had garnered spectacular international acclaim, the author hailed as the standard-bearer of a new literature: magical realism. Eight years later, in 1975, he published The Autumn of the Patriarch, and, in 1981, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, each novel rapturously received by critics and readers alike. With his books read by millions around the world, he had become a man of wealth and influence. Yet, for all his fame, he never lost touch with his roots: though he had lived outside of Colombia since 1955-in Barcelona, Mexico City, Paris-his Nobel Prize was celebrated by Colombians from all walks of life who thought, and still think, of ”Gabo” as their own. More books followed, both fiction (Love in the Time of Cholera, The General in his Labyrinth, Memories of My Melancholy Whores) and nonfiction (The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, News of a Kidnapping, Living to Tell the Tale). But Garc?a Marquez’s renown and passion have continued to combine, as well, in a fervent, unflagging, and often controversial political and social activism.
While chronicling the particulars of the life, Martin also considers the overarching issues: the tension between Garc?a M?rquez’s celebrity and his quest for literary quality, and between his politics and his writing; the seductions of power, solitude, and love. He explores the contrast between the exuberance of the writer’s Caribbean background and the authoritarianism of highland Bogot?, showing us how these differences are manifest in his writing and in the very shape his life has taken. He explores the melding of experience and imagination in Garc?a M?rquez’s fiction, and he examines the writer’s reasons for-and the public’s reaction to-his turning away in the 1980s from the magical realism that had brought him international renown, toward the greater simplicity that would mark his work beginning with Love in the Time of Cholera.
Gerald Martin has written a superb biography: richly illuminating, as gripping as any of Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez’s powerful journalism, as enthralling as any of his acclaimed and beloved fiction.
本書主要圍繞在馬奎斯的生平故事，涵蓋瑣碎小事到豐富的人生歷練，凸顯出馬奎斯生命中的許多張力──名人地位與文學作品的品質之間，政治與寫作，以及權力、孤獨、愛情之間；也描繪了加勒比海的背景與令人消沉、獨裁統治的高地波哥大之間的對比。這些錯綜複雜的糾葛帶來名聲和無法想像的財富之後，馬奎斯刻意但了不起的遠離「馬康多」、魔幻寫實和《百年孤寂》。
馬奎斯認定馬汀是他的官方傳記作者，在15年的研究期間，他們經常見面、訪談，終於在費時17年的努力後出版。馬汀至少訪問了300多人，包括古巴領袖卡斯楚、菲力培．貢薩雷斯、數任哥倫比亞總統、作家卡羅斯．福恩特斯、尤薩，和阿爾瓦羅．穆提斯等人。他也訪問了馬奎斯的妻子、兒子、母親、弟妹、經紀人、譯者、大部分的好友及工作上的夥伴（包括批評者）。這本傳記所根據的不只是馬汀在過去20年間對於馬奎斯與其背景的獨特體驗，也來自豐富的資料研究。本書的水準之高，令其他傳記作家望塵莫及。
他是賈西亞．馬奎斯（Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-）
生於哥倫比亞阿拉卡塔卡，1940年遷居首都波哥大，1947年進入波哥大大學攻讀法律，並開始文學創作，1948年因哥倫比亞內戰中途輟學。不久他進入報界，擔任《觀察家報》記者。1955年因連載文章揭露被政府美化了的海難而被迫離開哥倫比亞，擔任《觀察家報》駐歐洲記者。1960年，任古巴拉丁通訊社記者。
1961至1967年，馬奎斯移居墨西哥，從事文學、新聞和電影工作。之後主要居住在墨西哥和歐洲，繼續其文學創作。1975年他為抗議智利政變而舉行文學罷工，擱筆5年。1982年榮獲諾貝爾文學獎，並擔任法國西班牙語文化交流委員會主席。1982年哥倫比亞地震，他回到祖國。1999年得淋巴癌，此後文學產量遽減，2004年始出版新作《憶我憂傷妓女》。
馬奎斯一生獲獎眾多，包括1969年《百年孤寂》獲法國最佳外國作品獎，1971年獲美國哥倫比亞大學名譽教授，1972年獲拉丁美洲文學最高獎──加列戈斯文學獎，1981年獲法國政府頒發榮譽軍團勳章，1982年登上文學殿堂高峰──獲頒諾貝爾文學獎、同年也榮膺哥倫比亞語言科學院名譽院士。
震撼世界的《百年孤寂》
《百年孤寂》甫一面世即震驚拉丁美洲文壇及整個西班牙語世界，使得馬奎斯一躍成為炙手可熱的世界級作家！這部描寫發生在虛構的馬康多小鎮，布恩迪亞家族百年七代興衰的故事，可說是拉丁美洲歷史文化的濃縮投影，寫出人性的孤獨，也勾勒出數十年內戰的血腥冷酷，被公認為魔幻寫實主義最具代表性之作，二十世紀現代文學必讀經典。
作者簡介
傑拉德．馬汀（Gerald Martin）
匹茲堡大學現代語言學院教授，也是國際早期美洲文學協會的主席。作品包括《穿越迷宮的旅程》（1989），評論阿斯圖里亞斯的《玉米人》（1992）和《總統先生》（2000）。他的重要研究，多次刊載於劍橋拉丁美洲歷史期刊上。
譯者簡介
陳靜妍
英國新堡大學現代語言所博士，畢業於淡江大學英文系、愛丁堡大學賽爾特研究所碩士，現為專職譯者。譯有《水泥中的金髮女子》（麥可．康納利）等。
http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=F011643449
The first full and authorized biography of the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature-the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years.
Over the course of the nearly two decades Gerald Martin gave to the research and writing of this masterly biography, he not only spent many hours in conversation with Gabriel Garc?a Marquez himself but also interviewed more than three hundred others, including Garc?a Marquez’s wife and sons, mother and siblings, literary agent and translators; Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Alvaro Mutis, among other writers; Fidel Castro and Felipe Gonzalez, among other political figures; his closest friends as well as those who consider themselves his detractors. The result is a revelation of both the writer and the man.
Garca Marquez’s story is a remarkable one. Born in 1927, raised by grandparents and a clutch of aunts in a small backwater town in Colombia, the shy, intelligent boy matured into a reserved young man, first working as a provincial journalist and later as a foreign correspondent, whose years of obscurity came to an end when, at the age of forty, he published the novel entitled Cien anos de soledad-One Hundred Years of Solitude. Within months, the book had garnered spectacular international acclaim, the author hailed as the standard-bearer of a new literature: magical realism. Eight years later, in 1975, he published The Autumn of the Patriarch, and, in 1981, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, each novel rapturously received by critics and readers alike. With his books read by millions around the world, he had become a man of wealth and influence. Yet, for all his fame, he never lost touch with his roots: though he had lived outside of Colombia since 1955-in Barcelona, Mexico City, Paris-his Nobel Prize was celebrated by Colombians from all walks of life who thought, and still think, of ”Gabo” as their own. More books followed, both fiction (Love in the Time of Cholera, The General in his Labyrinth, Memories of My Melancholy Whores) and nonfiction (The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, News of a Kidnapping, Living to Tell the Tale). But Garc?a Marquez’s renown and passion have continued to combine, as well, in a fervent, unflagging, and often controversial political and social activism.
While chronicling the particulars of the life, Martin also considers the overarching issues: the tension between Garc?a M?rquez’s celebrity and his quest for literary quality, and between his politics and his writing; the seductions of power, solitude, and love. He explores the contrast between the exuberance of the writer’s Caribbean background and the authoritarianism of highland Bogot?, showing us how these differences are manifest in his writing and in the very shape his life has taken. He explores the melding of experience and imagination in Garc?a M?rquez’s fiction, and he examines the writer’s reasons for-and the public’s reaction to-his turning away in the 1980s from the magical realism that had brought him international renown, toward the greater simplicity that would mark his work beginning with Love in the Time of Cholera.
Gerald Martin has written a superb biography: richly illuminating, as gripping as any of Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez’s powerful journalism, as enthralling as any of his acclaimed and beloved fiction.
本書主要圍繞在馬奎斯的生平故事，涵蓋瑣碎小事到豐富的人生歷練，凸顯出馬奎斯生命中的許多張力──名人地位與文學作品的品質之間，政治與寫作，以及權力、孤獨、愛情之間；也描繪了加勒比海的背景與令人消沉、獨裁統治的高地波哥大之間的對比。這些錯綜複雜的糾葛帶來名聲和無法想像的財富之後，馬奎斯刻意但了不起的遠離「馬康多」、魔幻寫實和《百年孤寂》。
馬奎斯認定馬汀是他的官方傳記作者，在15年的研究期間，他們經常見面、訪談，終於在費時17年的努力後出版。馬汀至少訪問了300多人，包括古巴領袖卡斯楚、菲力培．貢薩雷斯、數任哥倫比亞總統、作家卡羅斯．福恩特斯、尤薩，和阿爾瓦羅．穆提斯等人。他也訪問了馬奎斯的妻子、兒子、母親、弟妹、經紀人、譯者、大部分的好友及工作上的夥伴（包括批評者）。這本傳記所根據的不只是馬汀在過去20年間對於馬奎斯與其背景的獨特體驗，也來自豐富的資料研究。本書的水準之高，令其他傳記作家望塵莫及。
他是賈西亞．馬奎斯（Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-）
生於哥倫比亞阿拉卡塔卡，1940年遷居首都波哥大，1947年進入波哥大大學攻讀法律，並開始文學創作，1948年因哥倫比亞內戰中途輟學。不久他進入報界，擔任《觀察家報》記者。1955年因連載文章揭露被政府美化了的海難而被迫離開哥倫比亞，擔任《觀察家報》駐歐洲記者。1960年，任古巴拉丁通訊社記者。
1961至1967年，馬奎斯移居墨西哥，從事文學、新聞和電影工作。之後主要居住在墨西哥和歐洲，繼續其文學創作。1975年他為抗議智利政變而舉行文學罷工，擱筆5年。1982年榮獲諾貝爾文學獎，並擔任法國西班牙語文化交流委員會主席。1982年哥倫比亞地震，他回到祖國。1999年得淋巴癌，此後文學產量遽減，2004年始出版新作《憶我憂傷妓女》。
馬奎斯一生獲獎眾多，包括1969年《百年孤寂》獲法國最佳外國作品獎，1971年獲美國哥倫比亞大學名譽教授，1972年獲拉丁美洲文學最高獎──加列戈斯文學獎，1981年獲法國政府頒發榮譽軍團勳章，1982年登上文學殿堂高峰──獲頒諾貝爾文學獎、同年也榮膺哥倫比亞語言科學院名譽院士。
震撼世界的《百年孤寂》
《百年孤寂》甫一面世即震驚拉丁美洲文壇及整個西班牙語世界，使得馬奎斯一躍成為炙手可熱的世界級作家！這部描寫發生在虛構的馬康多小鎮，布恩迪亞家族百年七代興衰的故事，可說是拉丁美洲歷史文化的濃縮投影，寫出人性的孤獨，也勾勒出數十年內戰的血腥冷酷，被公認為魔幻寫實主義最具代表性之作，二十世紀現代文學必讀經典。
作者簡介
傑拉德．馬汀（Gerald Martin）
匹茲堡大學現代語言學院教授，也是國際早期美洲文學協會的主席。作品包括《穿越迷宮的旅程》（1989），評論阿斯圖里亞斯的《玉米人》（1992）和《總統先生》（2000）。他的重要研究，多次刊載於劍橋拉丁美洲歷史期刊上。
譯者簡介
陳靜妍
英國新堡大學現代語言所博士，畢業於淡江大學英文系、愛丁堡大學賽爾特研究所碩士，現為專職譯者。譯有《水泥中的金髮女子》（麥可．康納利）等。
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